European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 30, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Job Ess benefits running out Tor Many in Louisiana Houma in. A Oul of work out of Money and out of Lurt ludic re Hubert sucked up his considerable cajun Pride and did whal he had prayed he would never have to do apply for unemployment benefits so he could feed his family. The Cairns a Leberl 35, said arc survivor. They live off the  but with children aged 1 1 and 3, he found himself in he unemployment lines. No Check cd me fur six weeks. They said they had to determine if i was eligible he said a process Tinl look six weeks. It was rough. Even necessities took like luxuries  Bill Coker s april 10 unemployment Ehrck Tula cd s2, and the note attached said the 38-Yoi-Osd shr Veport pipe fitter had exhausted his Bench it. Come Back in september is what they old me Coker said. By september 1 May have completely gone  As the Oil Industry has dried up Louisiana has gained the unwelcome distinction of having the nation s highest jobless Fate 13.1 percent. The state s unemployment offices have been hooded with hardship cases and officials say he system is being stretched beyond its limits. Nearly 70 percent of Louisiana s 258,300 unemployed workers 178,356 of them receive no unemployment checks because their benefits have expired they Don t meet strict eligibility requirements or the checks Are delayed in the crush of applications state officials say we have people calling up in a panic because their unemployment is running out and prospects for jobs these Days arc  said John Gianforte. Director of the family crisis Center in Shreveport. What s More the state has been forced to borrow s545 million from the Federal government at 9.96 percent an Nual interest to keep paying unemployment insurance claims. We have not had Normal condition in Louisiana since 1979," said Allen Johnson a spokesman for the state department of labor. Some help May come my month Johnson said when the depressed conditions trigger a Federal emergency pro Gram of extended benefits .,.,. Since benefits Are legislated by state and Federal jaw officials have Lille latitude in helping those in need Tomboure a labor department spokesman said. In Louisiana the unemployment compensation limit is s205 a week for 26 weeks in it 1 2-month period. It s an insurance program. We have to be fair to both sides the workers and the employers who pay into the fund Bottig said the fact that a person May need the Money we sympathize with that very much but we have to follow the guidelines. We arc the Steward of the employers . Coker a pipe fitter who has worked at Oil refineries found steady work for Only six months in the last three years. He s worked a Day Here a Day there and says he s never turned Dawn a  the past either his weekly Check was extended when he reached 26 weeks or he was Able to find enough work her and there to i Ewh the benefits Over 1 1 Monark now there s no work and no Extension a new Calendar year for my unemployment slam in september he said. I m trying to mow lawns but thas sometimes Only $23 a week. What am i a no to do until Friday. May 30,. 1986 the stars and stripes Page cob Cuk sold his boat and gun Cabinet and is trying to sell his car to keep making the payments on his three bedroom Home. Re creating historic flight Pilot owner Wilson Edwards stands atop be cockpit of his big Spring Texas and second Fly inf boat piloted by world War ii Flat see sea phew after Landing on whet Kris " k it Franks of los and eks ire recreating the Ray in a fake in a ton of the not trans Atlantic 1919 trans Allan la flight by is. Navy u cmdr. Altert night 67 years ago. The plane owned by Edwards from c. Read. The Man on the Wing s not identified. Pelton was impulse spy agent says Baltimore a accused spy Ronald w. Pc ton told Federal agents he decided to spy for the soviets on an impulse prompted by bankruptcy and the russians got More out of me than 1 wanted to give up an Fri Pfent testified wednesday on the second Day of Pelton s trial pc Lon 44, faces life in prison if convicted of telling the soviets about us. Espionage against Russia during hii.14 year career As it communications specialist for the nation Al Security Agency the organization that intercepts and decodes foreign communications. Meanwhile the Asa and the Cia issued a joint statement saying the government would release classified information during the trial. The two things the soviets appeared most interested in Pelton told the Fri were a project to intercept High level soviet communications and a paper he wrote on . Intelligence gathering agent David Faulkner testified. According to Faulkner during a Long session with Fri agents before his Artest on nov. 24, Pelton refused to reveal Watt he had sold the soviets but said he received $33,000 plus $4,000 to 55,000 to cover trips to Vienna Austria in october 1980 and april 1983. He said it was very difficult to admit that it happened Faulkner testified. He said that walking into the soviet embassy in Washington on Jan. 15, 1980, was the biggest mistake of his life but that when you Are Brake you do some crazy things Pelum filed for bankruptcy in the summer of 1979 after he mortgaged himself to the Hill 10 buy land and sup plies to build a House Between Baltimore and Washington and the materials were stolen. Faulkner said. Fearing his financial plight would jeopardize his Asa career Pelton quit and look o series of jobs As a Yacel Salesman computer consultant and International financier but. Faulkner mid none of them worked out and Pelton decided to sell his secrets to the soviets. On the evening of Jan. 15, 1980, after two Telephone conversations with soviet officials Pelton allegedly entered the embassy and gave them the location of a device the Asa used to intercept soviet communications. Faulkner said pc Lon also told the agents he Cave the soviets information about a program to upgrade . Capacity to listen to secret russian communications. Name. Judge gives 13-year-old final say on abortion education and the state division of be Lefi to individual families. New Brunswick . A a judge has ruled the Shorter of a 13-y  girl could try Ilo persuade her daughter to have an abortion but that the final Deci Sion rests with the girl John e. Bachman made the rut l to help the teen a to have her child. M. Mother the Board of education and the state division of youth and family services the reason Why no abortion was performed was that the Young lady steadfastly maintained her negative pos Ture Bachman said As far As the court knows this is still the  according to court documents. Problem pregnancy members saw the girl leaving the women s medical Cen Ter in Edison on May 17 when they were demonstrating the clinic offers pregnancy counselling and performs abortions. Rosemary Lyons a problem pregnancy Board director filed an affidavit after meeting with the girl saying the teen Ager told Hen my Mother is forcing me to have an  Bertram Glassnor the attorney for the Giri s Mother argued last week for dismissal of the lawsuit saying the decision la have an abortion b a private matter and should b t Eugene Mulvaney an attorney for problem pregnancy argued that because stale Law allows minors to obtain abortions without parental consent they also have the right to reject abortions. Bachman interviewed the girl and her Mother privately after the hearing which the family did not attend. The Mother testified that she is single and has other children. The father of the children abandoned them Esghel years ago and provides no financial support Bachman said. The Mother also expressed Strong feelings concerning the necessity of her daughter continuing her education he said. Considering these factors she decided that the Best course of action was  the Mother still believes the Best course of action is abortion but her advocacy will be in the form of per suasion rather than coercion Bachman said